Aztec Creation Story

The mother of the Aztec creation story was called "Coatlique", the Lady of the
Skirt of Snakes. She was created in the image of the unknown, decorated with
skulls, snakes, and lacerated hands. There are no cracks in her body and she is
a perfect monolith (a totality of intensity and self-containment, yet her
features were sqaure and decapitated).

Coatlique was first impregnated by an obsidian knife and gave birth to
Coyolxanuhqui, goddess of the moon, and to a group of male offspring, who
became the stars. Then one day Coatlique found a ball of feathers, which she
tucked into her bosom. Whe she looked for it later, it was gone, at which time
she realized that she was again pregnant. Her children, the moon and stars
did not believe her story. Ashamed of their mother, they resolved to kill her.
A goddess could only give birth once, to the original litter of divinity and
no more. During the time that they were plotting her demise, Coatlicue gave
birth to the fiery god of war, Huitzilopochtli. With the help of a fire
serpent, he destroyed his brothers and sister, murdering them in a rage. He
beheaded Coyolxauhqui and threw her body into a deep gorge in a mountain, where
it lies dismembered forever.

The natural cosmos of the Indians was born of catastrophe. The heavens
literally crumbled to pieces. The earth mother fell and was fertilized, while
her children were torn apart by fratricide and them scattered and disjointed
throughout the universe.